HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Of all the possible scenarios, seeing both the FAU men's and women's basketball teams miss shots at the buzzer and go down in the first round of their respective Sun Belt Conference tournaments was pretty unlikely.

Of course, that's exactly what happened. So all of the Owl fans who didn't make it to Hot Springs, Ark. (by my count it was all of them) may have saved themselves the aggravation of watching their teams falter.

Perhaps that's to be expected when both the leading scorers for the men's and women's teams had days they would like to forget.

Brittany Bowe only scored three points as the women lost to New Orleans 51-50 and Greg Gantt scored 12 points, but was 5-of-20 from the field in the 52-51 loss to South Alabama.

It would have been pretty unlikely for both - or even one - of the teams to win the tournament, but I am floored to see both bow out on the first day of the event.

There will be plenty of time to dissect the seasons that just ended, but for now it's time to join what appears to be a mass exodus from Hot Springs back to Boca Raton.

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